On Sunday, 9 April 2017 at 12:56:48 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

>> Mailing list is one thing, forum is another thing; so making the current forum act as both will be difficult.
>
> This has already been done.
>

If you decide it is done. It is hard to say anything further. Respect your choice but I am not with you.

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> The D tag on StackOverflow is monitored by many regulars of these forums as well, and D-tagged questions get announced to the IRC channel, so if you prefer that interface, there's no reason to not simply use StackOverflow.
>

Well, does this mean that dlang.org does not have strong intention to keep this forum as the main gathering point for D community? Because if you guys do, it is good idea to make it a feature-rich forum, not a minimalist to keep the output compatible with that of a mail thread. For example: I can't edit my post, this is because a mail thread does not allow that (i.e. one can't edit the sent messages)?

I've given the feedback. I will head over SO for now.

On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 12:12:05 UTC, biocyberman wrote:

> Well, does this mean that dlang.org does not have strong intention to keep this forum as the main gathering point for D community? Because if you guys do, it is good idea to make it a feature-rich forum, not a minimalist to keep the output compatible with that of a mail thread. For example: I can't edit my post, this is because a mail thread does not allow that (i.e. one can't edit the sent messages)?
>
> I've given the feedback. I will head over SO for now.

The forum is a web interface to an existing newsgroup server that has been the backbone of D community discussions since the beginning. The web interface (I've always found the usage of "forum" in this case to raise false expectations) does not maintain the authoritative database. Any features that are added to the web interface need to take into consideration all of the users who access it via newsreaders and mail clients.

Am Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:24:15 +0000
schrieb Vladimir Panteleev <thecybershadow.lists@gmail.com>:

> On Monday, 10 April 2017 at 09:35:30 UTC, crimaniak wrote:
> >  IMHO, it's better to do the same as with HTML letters:
> > text/markdown body + text/plain body for clients not supporting
> > markdown.
> 
> Multipart messages have their issues.
> 
> Are there any clients which will render a text/markdown part as Markdown? I'm not aware of any.

Claws Mail renders it the same as text/plain. I don't know
what other news clients do, but the idea to render all text/*
as text/plain goes a long way until a proper plugin is
available. (text/html without a plugin is really
horrible though)
I think once a big player starts to support Markdown the rest
will follow, but it makes no sense for the Dlang news groups
to try and get the ball rolling.
(A problem with HTML mail is the great flexibility. Some mails
are unreadable on a dark color scheme or the different fonts
and sizes drive you mad.)

-- 
Marco

On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 16:23:15 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> (A problem with HTML mail is the great flexibility. Some mails
> are unreadable on a dark color scheme or the different fonts
> and sizes drive you mad.)

We could do what GitHub does and send Markdown in text/plain and Markdown-rendered-to-HTML in text/html.